Hairpin



L. H. KRICKEL.

HAIRPIN.

APPLICATION mm APR-8| I920.

1,353,350. S PatentedSept. 21, .1920.

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WITNESSES v lNl/EIVZOR A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES LOUIS HART KRICKEL, OFMONROE, LOUISIANA.

HAI PI Specification of tears Patent. P t nted S t, 21,'1920 Applicationfiled April 8, 1920. Serial No. 372,213.

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS H. KRICKEL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Monroe, in the parish of Ouachita andState ofLouisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hairpins, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in hair pins, and has for its object toprovide a pm of the character specified, simple in construction andconvenient to use, and which when engaged with the hair, will be heldagainst accidental displacement, the pin having a positive lock forfirmly gripping the hair to hold the pin in place, and wherein the headof the pin may be of ornamental construction.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view showing the blanks from whichthe pin is formed,

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the first operation in the formation ofthe pin,

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the second step,

Fig. 4 pin, and

Fig. 5 is an edge view.

In the present embodiment of the invention the improved pin is composedof two similar strands of wire 1-2, of suitable length, each strandbeing of slightly greater length than the legs of the pin to be formed.Each strand has at one end a laterally bent portion 8 for a purpose tobe presently described, and the strands are connected b arranging themas shown in' Fig. l, wit the ends provided with the lugs 3 overlapping,and then twisting the two strands together to form a twist 4 atthecenter of the pin.

With this arrangement there is formed for the pin two relatively longarms and two relatively short arms, at each end of the twist 4, all ofthe arms lying in the same plane. After the strands have been twistedtogether as shown in Fig. 2, the

is a plan view of the completed arms are bent or corrugated as indicatedat 5, the corrugations of the long and the short arms being oppositeeach other.

It will be noticed that by arranging the strands as specified, there ison each side will be noticed referring to Fig. 4 that each 7 pair ofarms, that is, each relatively long and relatively short arm lie closetogether, so that they will grip the hair between them, and will furnisha positive lock against disengagement of. the pin.

The twist 4 and the corrugations provide an ornamental head for the pin,and when the pairs of arms are straight the twist alone will provide anornamental head. The lock with the hair is on the inner sides of thelong arms.

I claim:

A hair pin composed lapped together near one end of each strand andtwisted together intermediate the ends of the lap to form at each sideofthe twist a relatively long and a relatively short arm, said pin beingbent at the twist to cause the arms to lie alongside each other inthesame plane, with a relatively short arm adjacent to each relatively longarm, said arms being corrugated or roughened, and each relatively shortarm having at its free end a portion bent in the opposite direction fromthe relatively long arm.

LOUIS HART KRICKEL.

of two strands

